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I understand the importance of visibility. As a small business owner, being "known" can be the difference between a steady flow of revenue or closing your doors. Yet, being visible is not enough. Being remembered is most important and means you occupy some prime real estate in the mind of someone. Garnering "share of mind" means that you somewhere along the way that they sampled your character and competency and you became memorable.

Marketing, by definition, is creating an exchange environment. For an individual, that could mean breaking a referral, speaking positively on your behalf, a promotion or an introduction. Branding, by definition, is an emotion or image tied to a product. YOU are the product. Even in businesses, people are the brand and define the company, more than any mission mission statement hanging in the lobby. So, how does an individual create "buzz" for their brand for visibility and more importantly to be remembered so that they can develop credibility?

1. Know what makes you unique.

Whether you're job hunting or wanting a position on board of director's, you need to confidently know what value you bring to the table.

2. Get really good at communicating what makes you valuable.

Ninety-three percent of communication is tone and body language. Spend time on the words so that what you say and how you communicate are congruent with your value. Yet, know that communication includes your image, the way you present yourself, your workspace, your phone skills and even your lunch meeting etiquette. They must all be congruent with what makes you valuable. Any discrepancies will jeopardize your credibility and could produce negative word of mouth which is a problem that I will address in future articles.

3. Manage that communication.

If you're creating "buzz" around your brand, it will require you to proactively manage the communication. For example, if you're new to a company or a position you will need to build a credibility wall. Yes, a physical wall if possible. It showcases every plaque, certificate, service honor, licensing, certification and degree you've received. This wall is your visual third party testimonial on the character and competency of your brand. Since that wall can not travel with you, make sure that anytime you're honored for volunteer service or recognized for a contribution that a copy of the "thank you" letter, note or card be placed into you personnel file.

Even if you're on your own, these "proof of credibility" tools will take you far. As the vice president of a business concern in college, I invited speakers to speak to our fraternity for professional development. I asked each of them to write a letter for me about their experience working with me so that I could include that in my personal portfolio. Many of these speakers went on to become regional directors, chief operation officers, chief financial officers, company presidents and further that my portfolio has become quite valuable. Actively "buzz" your brand! Doing that will develop credibility; credibility will lead to influence; and influence with lead to leadership.

Together with the advancement of science and technology, technological innovations grew along with it, resulting to the emergence of new equipment and gadgets. No matter how big or small your company is, technology brings both intangible and tangible benefits to become cost efficient and to meet the growing demands and needs of customers. Technological innovations affect corporate efficiency, culture and relationship among employees, clients, suppliers and customers. The type and quality of technology used affect the security of confidential business information.

Due to the burden brought by administrative tasks, like inventory, bookkeeping and records keeping, both big and small companies rely on computers to do their administrative works. The birth of Internet and online social networking sites tremendously decreased the costs of business operations. It also makes it easier for companies to use the Six Sigma management methodologies. Some firms shifted to outsourcing instead of hiring their own personnel due to the low costs associated with it. Because of the huge impact of technological innovations to companies, it is impossible for them to live with it.

Commonly used high technology equipment:

Computers

Photocopier

Telephone

Computer printer

Internet

Paper shredder

Multimedia projector

Touch screen monitors

Computer mouse

Laptop computers

Advantages of Technology to Business:

Customer Relations. Technology affects the way companies communicate and establish relations with their clients. In a fast moving and business environment, it is vital for them to interact with clients regularly and quickly to gain their trust and to obtain customer loyalty. With the use of Internet and online social networks, firms interact with consumers and answer all their queries about the product. Establishing effective communication with customers not only creates rapport with them, but it also creates strong public image. It allows business enterprises to reduce and to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

Business Operations. With the use of technological innovations, business owners and entrepreneur understand their cash flow better, how to manage their storage costs well and enables you to save time and money.

Corporate Culture. Technology lets employees communicate and interact with other employees in other countries. It establishes clique and prevents social tensions from arising.

Security. Modern security equipment enables companies to protect their financial data, confidential business information and decisions.

Research Opportunities. It provides a venue to conduct studies to keep themselves ahead of competitors. It allows companies to virtually travel into unknown markets.

Corporate Reports. With technology, business enterprises communicate effectively with their branch offices to deliver quality financial and operational reports.

Industrial Productivity. Through the use of business software programs or software packages, it automated traditional manufacturing process, reduces labor costs and enhances manufacturing productivity. It enables companies to increase efficiency and production output.

Business mobility. Technological innovations improved companies’ sales, services, shorted lead time on receiving and delivering goods and services. Enables them to penetrate multiple markets at least costs.

Research capacity. It enables them to conduct studies on various companies to gain knowledge on the new trends in the market and way on avoiding them.

Bing is one of the up and coming search engines in the online community today. I'm sure that you have seen the commercials that have telling you that they are the decision engine not the "search" engine. Pretty good when you think about it. Bing is trying to crawl up the ladder slowly but surely. There are many great reviews about bing from users around the world. Many say that Bing is easier to navigate, more interactive, better customer support, and is more faster and responsive than Google itself. You can search more information on Alexa.com. What does this mean for SEO? This means that Bing has plenty of knowledgeable people looking for specific types of information online and are starting to use Bing for answers before Google.

I'm not saying that Google is being threatened by them nor am needarily saying that Bing is better than Google. What I am saying is that you should pay close attention what is going on in the internet as opposed to listening to particular figures that narrow your mind only into a specific strategy or search engine, telling you that this is the only way you can get to people online which is preposterous.

There are three unique strategies that you can use to optimize on Bing.com. You are gong to have to do something a little different from what you have been told. First of all you first need to do a regular search on Google. Once you perform your keyword search on Google (using quotations on the keywords you are looking to use) you will want to take those same keywords or key phrases and place them in the bing search bar as well. You will want to analyze both results and see which one is the best ranked.

You should know that Bing does not favor domain keywords (ie xyz.com, .net, .info, etc.). Bing.com's own domain does not even rank that high their own search engine but they are in the top ten in Google. However, Bing does like EzineArticles.com and forums.

You will also want to use XHTML as oppose to HTML as Bing optimizes better for XHTML. You will want to be sure that you have the appropriate validation for your XHTML to suit the W3c standards. Bing is also big on meta tags. Google does not give much detail about the amount of characters for optimizing meta tags but Bing states that you should have original tags for each page that you want to establish and should be 25 to 150 characters, 874 characters in your keywords, and the most important keywords in your title and description. Keywords should not repeat more than 4 times or it will look like you are spamming.

It can be great when it comes to getting all of the furniture that you want for your patio and arrange it exactly how you want it. The furniture can help to fill up empty spaces brilliantly by making the most out of the space available.

The thing is that though no matter how much furniture you get for your patio, it can sometimes still look bare. This can be a problem to some people and they just do not know what to do about it. However one way that can help to create the look is by the effective use of accessories.

Using Accessories to Brighter Up Your Patio

By the right arrangement and use of accessories, it can really help to create an inviting mood and it also helps to make the most out of the furniture. You can create a nice and surreal area out on your patio with the combination of high quality furniture and accessories. However, which accessories should you use? Well there are quite a few different accessories that you can get for your furniture including: –

o Cushions

o Parasols

o Blankets

o Planters

o Wind Chimes

This is just a few things that you can get to help to spruce up your patio furniture and it is quite easy to achieve a great look as well. You can make the chairs extremely comfortable by using nice cushions and the best thing is that you can choose what materials and styles to go for. You may want to go for silk cushions which can offer even more luxury and help you to get the most relaxing time possible. It also helps to enhance the mood of the surrounding atmosphere and it can be something that you are proud of at the same time.

Be Creative with Your Patio Furniture Accessories

When you buy the accessories for your patio furniture it gives you a chance to be extremely creative in order to help create the look that you desire. There is so much that you can do to get the best look possible while offering maximum comfort at the same time. You could use absolutely anything that you like whether you use a planter, ornaments, clocks or even wind chimes to spruce up your patio furniture. The accessories are certainly something that can add to the overall look and they can even make the patio furniture look better.

As you can see you can get some great accessories and basically you can use anything that you like to help to create that perfect look to bring out the full potential of the patio furniture.